It happened about 9:05 this morning, I was just up, barely awake past staggering stage but before coffee. Into the comp rm I went to check on the weather program...and much to my surprise (It HAS been 6 weeks you know) the Network Magic program popped up with a "Internet Connected" message! I looked at the LiveBox and saw the normal blinking lights, no joy, just another bity of noise to confound and confuse. The message faded then came on again a minute later, I looked again at the LiveBox and the DSL light was ON! Not Blinking...ON! Wowee! Then it went off...huh?
So I tried Internet Explorer and l'viola! There it was...Orange.fr! Hot shit! Got it! I walked into the bedroom to announce to Kelly the great news and back again it was still alive and well. I sat down to see every @#$$#@ application on my machine doing downloads to update the now seruiously out of date (5 weeks) software. Sooo cool this is, we are back online again! Upon examination we have a 20MB/sec ADSL-2connection, bloody quick compared to our old 8 MB one and the even slower 1.5 one in California.
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We drove to Bourges and Mondail Tissues to get the required cloth for the entry hallway, it's curtains and the curtains for the waiting room. We chose three wonderful designs and got the required yardage for each and wandered off to the Carrefour store to fill my list of needed groceries for next week.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Happy Anniversary!
Blog Entry Thursday 1 May, 2008 May Day!
A SIGNIFICANT Anniversary for Moi (Mwah)(Me), 11 years ago today I had my first heart attack!
11 long, joyous and fruitful years EXTRA time. Thank you Kiaser Doctors and St. Mary's Doctors for your skill, perseverance and knowledge of all things HEART. It was a long 9 days in the hospital(s) and the care I got could NOT have been better, I'm LIVING proof of that! Lots of drugs, exercise, diet and keeping everything positive has kept me going. I laugh a lot and that helps. I'd laugh a LOT more if I had DSL, alas Tuesday and Wednesday have passed and TODAY is a BANK HOLIDAY in France, ol' socialist republic as it is, they DO dance around the May-Pole! We don't anymore, it was never and IMPORTANT Holiday like 4th of July, Christmas or Thanksgiving, it was a low key one with little billing and once taken over by the communists that was pretty much the end of its celebration for US citizens. I still can remember in the early 50's having a May-Pole in the schoolyard at Walnut School in Selma and dancing around in wrapping ribbons as we went. Pretty silly but made the day special to a kid from Panama who would have rather been with his Mom than there, but that's another story for another day.
Today HERE it is a Bank Holiday and a Day off for all government workers and most shops are closed, at least those we frequent seem to be. Ah well, I'm building the bookcase for the waiting room fireplace wall, I like building furnishings though I'm by no means an expert at it. I have only the plans from between my ears and as such I make silly mistakes here and there. My shop is very limited too, not enough table space and the one I have is too small for this project. A Ryobi 10” table saw, a router, a portable planer, a belt sander abd a spray painting rig and a liberal grouping of hand tools makes up my tool cabinet (where?!). Not enough clamps, light and brains to do the job RIGHT but adequate to get something that'll hold books and can be painted to cover my crooked nailing and general poor construction technique. I spent the afternoon fabricating the bottom, sides and supports for the shelves before the weather became too cold and windy to deal with the open layout of the barn.
I was so cold I was shaking, enough! I took all the completed pieces inside the house to allow the glue to cure. Tomorrow we'll fasten the sides together and Kelly will paint samples so we can decide what color it should be.
Made a Madras Chicken Curry over Saffron rice for dinner, it was good but way too hot (spicy) for Kelly. I'll try to calm it down next time but it is a conundrum in order to have sufficient flavor in the coiconut milk/onion base one has to use more Madras Curry and that brings heat along with it. One day I'll figure this curry thing out but not yet I guess.
A SIGNIFICANT Anniversary for Moi (Mwah)(Me), 11 years ago today I had my first heart attack!
11 long, joyous and fruitful years EXTRA time. Thank you Kiaser Doctors and St. Mary's Doctors for your skill, perseverance and knowledge of all things HEART. It was a long 9 days in the hospital(s) and the care I got could NOT have been better, I'm LIVING proof of that! Lots of drugs, exercise, diet and keeping everything positive has kept me going. I laugh a lot and that helps. I'd laugh a LOT more if I had DSL, alas Tuesday and Wednesday have passed and TODAY is a BANK HOLIDAY in France, ol' socialist republic as it is, they DO dance around the May-Pole! We don't anymore, it was never and IMPORTANT Holiday like 4th of July, Christmas or Thanksgiving, it was a low key one with little billing and once taken over by the communists that was pretty much the end of its celebration for US citizens. I still can remember in the early 50's having a May-Pole in the schoolyard at Walnut School in Selma and dancing around in wrapping ribbons as we went. Pretty silly but made the day special to a kid from Panama who would have rather been with his Mom than there, but that's another story for another day.
Today HERE it is a Bank Holiday and a Day off for all government workers and most shops are closed, at least those we frequent seem to be. Ah well, I'm building the bookcase for the waiting room fireplace wall, I like building furnishings though I'm by no means an expert at it. I have only the plans from between my ears and as such I make silly mistakes here and there. My shop is very limited too, not enough table space and the one I have is too small for this project. A Ryobi 10” table saw, a router, a portable planer, a belt sander abd a spray painting rig and a liberal grouping of hand tools makes up my tool cabinet (where?!). Not enough clamps, light and brains to do the job RIGHT but adequate to get something that'll hold books and can be painted to cover my crooked nailing and general poor construction technique. I spent the afternoon fabricating the bottom, sides and supports for the shelves before the weather became too cold and windy to deal with the open layout of the barn.
I was so cold I was shaking, enough! I took all the completed pieces inside the house to allow the glue to cure. Tomorrow we'll fasten the sides together and Kelly will paint samples so we can decide what color it should be.
Made a Madras Chicken Curry over Saffron rice for dinner, it was good but way too hot (spicy) for Kelly. I'll try to calm it down next time but it is a conundrum in order to have sufficient flavor in the coiconut milk/onion base one has to use more Madras Curry and that brings heat along with it. One day I'll figure this curry thing out but not yet I guess.
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